The AS/400 Made Off with the Money
by Alex Woodie

The IBM AS/400 is good at a lot of things, including tracking inventory, processing claims, and tallying sales. And now you can add one more accomplishment to the legendary box's resume: Running Ponzi schemes. In recent weeks, evidence points to the fact that Bernie Madoff used an AS/400 server to help perpetrate his alleged $50 billion fraud. Data contained on the server, recently confiscated by the Justice Department, will likely play a crucial role in helping to unravel the crime of the century. READ MORE >

IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure Announcement Blitz
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

For a long time now, the major IT players in the world have been pitching the idea of convergence, by which they meant the coming together of computing and telecommunications technology. Now that the BlackBerry and the iPhone are here, this is pretty much a done deal. (I am joking, sort of.) But Big Blue, hot to chase some economic stimulus dollars from Uncle Sam and to get a piece of a different part of the capital budget at companies, has a new kind of convergence in mind. READ MORE >

Sugar in the YiPs Sandbox
by Dan Burger

How do you get your hands on some open source customer relationship management software that's ready to rock 'n' roll on the IBM i? Simple: Take a quick Web trip to the Young i Professionals home page, where you'll find one of the more popular business-oriented, open source applications: SugarCRM. Visitors can log into the application--as a user or an administrator--and spend some hands-on time with an open source Web application running on the i platform. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: Biting The Handout
by Hesh Wiener

At 7:20 a.m. on February 2, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited the Staten Island Zoo to meet Chuck the groundhog. Chuck, formally known as Charles E. Schumer Hogg, according to Bloomberg News, didn't appreciate Hizonner's 'teasing him with corn-on-the-cob.' The critter bit the mayor's gloved left index finger hard enough to draw blood. Mr. Bloomberg remained affable, as is his wont, setting an example of good manners for the Federal government, which is going to spend the next few years feeding potential nippers, among them IBM, Google, and Microsoft. READ MORE >